Sunday, July 12, 2009

Roast 'em if you got 'em

Even though today was a hot summer day, I had a craving for roasted chicken and vegetables. It was a great way to use up the potatoes, onion, fennel, carrots, beets, summer savory and greens. We picked up some bone-in chicken breasts at My Organic Market (MOMs) from a local farm in Maryland.

We cut up the potatoes and beets into 1/2 inch cubes, the carrots were tiny so we left them whole, the fennel and onions were also small so we quartered them, basically trying to get everything about the same size. Then we put everything on a baking sheet, tossed it with olive oil, summer savory, salt and pepper and popped it in a 400 degree oven.



Then we took more summer savory and rubbed it under the skin of the chicken breast along with salt and pepper and placed the chicken on a second baking sheet. This also went into the same oven. The vegetables took about 55 minutes to cook and the chicken took about 40 minutes. Meanwhile we washed and chopped the beet greens and radish greens. Once the chicken was done we took it off of the baking sheet and put the greens on the same baking sheet. Put this in the oven for about 5 minutes until wilted. Done.



This dish was so simple and the flavors of all of the vegetables were really amazing.  If you are willing to heat up the house for an hour or so, this is a great way to use up a bunch of vegetables all at once.

3 comments:

Kathy said...

Thought of you guys tonight while we ate our dinner procured entirely from the Burke Farmer's Market this morning. Even the buffalo steak. Did you know they raise buffalo in Culpepper?

J & K said...

I got some buffalo burgers from Cibola farms at the DuPont Farmer's Market recently. They are located in Virginia too. Not sure where exactly. They were very tasty. We served them to my family and my 8 year old nephew said "this buffalo is the best beef I've ever had."

Jen said...

I went to Cibola farms after a bike ride early this summer after we found them at the Falls Church farmer's market. Their store was set-up in the garage of their house. We rang a door bell and a mostly toothless guy sped up on an ATV to greet us. We caught him at the right time, since he was about to move the buffalo herd and that would have trapped him for awhile. We love the jerky, as do our dogs who seem to find it wherever we carelessly leave it out. Yay for local food!